Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you are replacing an existing faulty drain or laying a new one , perhaps to lead from an extension , the major part of the job will be excavating the trench . |
| 2 | Instead of all the problems of finding or developing an appropriate sampling frame , and of drawing the sample randomly from the list , the quota sample is usually drawn by the interviewer . |
| 3 | If you can not do everything at once , or want to start making staged improvements , either concentrate on your first priorities ( leaving space for the next stages ) or your worst problems-depending on whether you are planning a first-time kitchen or updating an existing one . |
| 4 | Many d-i-y jobs around the home require you to stand on something so you can reach higher , for instance when changing a light bulb or painting a low ceiling . |
| 5 | Children will also be able to get a Save the Earth money box , in which they will be asked to put money each time someone in their family wastes energy , for example by leaving on a light or boiling a full kettle of water for one cup of tea . |
| 6 | In addition , some patients having an operation aimed primarily at relieving pancreatic duct obstruction or resecting a diseased pancreas are also found to have an element of biliary tract obstruction requiring surgical drainage . |
| 7 | If you have trouble lifting or balancing a conventional wheelbarrow , a garden cart may be the answer . |
| 8 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 9 | It could be having a good night 's sleep the night before , playing tennis or taking a sauna , losing weight or having a stiff drink just before you begin . |
| 10 | There must also , normally , be a procedure for making the new rule or amending an old one . |
| 11 | Give a dog ( so to speak ) a bad name , treat him or her accordingly — by having a confrontation or using a suspicious manner — and we are quite likely to trigger a hostile , resentful reaction that confirms our original opinion . |
| 12 | None of these operations , however , was strong enough to take on the role of nurturing talent or providing a supportive home for creative filmmakers . |
| 13 | The charge should be attempted theft or obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception . |
| 14 | There will be some conflict over who owns or earns what between the 26th and 28th but , as June gets under way , your chances of clinching a deal or celebrating a major coup are extremely high . |
| 15 | They were there to assist the papacy in its work of extending the Christian religion and maintaining a just society . |
| 16 | But , though it is heartening to find an Iranian writer bravely grappling with the problems of exile and turning a critical eye on the values of both his native and adopted countries , Mr Ataie will write better plays when he admits the theatrical importance of contradiction and argument . |
| 17 | Ruth Hilali , who 's fifty and formerly from Worcester , but now of no fixed address , is charged with stealing more than six thousand pounds from the Kurdish Refugee Association and making a false statement to obtain a passport . |
| 18 | Powered by a Ha 70/1 ‘ double ’ -Atsuta buried in the fuselage and driving a six-blade constant speed propeller via an extension shaft , a crew of two sat well forward in the nose because of this arrangement . |
| 19 | Compact may be seen as taking the relationship between Education and Industry a step closer , by creating a demand for Partnership and providing an Industry-based resource for the curriculum . |
| 20 | Social workers and SSDs walk a tightrope between maintaining the spirit of partnership and creating a new , relatively unaccountable means of taking children away . |
| 21 | Much more satisfactory is the method of lofting a pulley at the end of the main kiteline and passing a continuous loop of secondary line through the pulley . |
| 22 | Then , when the glider pilot recognises he is far too low , any quick movement to regain position takes the glider up through the same wind gradient , causing a sudden surge of speed and producing an unexpected and possibly uncontrollable gain of height . |
| 23 | Keith Clash , 27 , was jailed for over two months at Bristol Crown Court yesterday after admitting theft and carrying an offensive weapon . |
| 24 | The Cerne Giant at Cerne Abbas in Dorset is a naked man , 180ft tall , brandishing a 120ft club and displaying a huge phallus . |
| 25 | But working to scale from a cartoon drawing and meeting a tight deadline posed problems for the sculpture 's designer . |
| 26 | It is certainly not without significance that the Association always maintained a link with the new youth movement by aligning itself with the Boys ' Brigade and playing an active role in the formation of the Scouts . |
| 27 | At a rally of 60,000 supporters at the Afrikaner Voortrekker Monument near Pretoria on May 26 , Andries Treurnicht , leader of the Conservative Party ( CP ) , the official parliamentary opposition , outlined his party 's strategy for reversing the government 's reform programme and achieving an Afrikaner homeland . |
| 28 | Newtonian physics at one time seemed to give support to the idea that the universe was ordered and mechanistic and , therefore , divinely made ; Darwinism challenged many of the basic tenets of Christianity , thereby setting science and religion in opposition and creating an important set of dualities — rationality/irrationality , reason/faith — through which we have come to construct science . |
| 29 | He claimed to detect an ‘ epistemological break ’ in the writings of Marx in the year 1945 , discarding Marx 's ( undoubtably humanist ) early works as juvenilia and constructing a non-humanistic ‘ scientific ’ Marxism on the basis of his later works only ( Althusser , 1969 ) . |
| 30 | Mind you , if the tourist board thought they could get away with it , they 'd probably claim he spent an afternoon at the local petrol station , buying some anti-smear windscreen wash and a fan belt , before moving on to a gift shop to purchase a handmade stuffed velvet Loch Ness monster and having an appreciative sniff at the perfumed candle display . |